Job Description
Job Title:  ASIC Digital Backend Design Engineer (m/f/d) - Flexible EU - Remote
Posting Start Date:  7/7/26

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.
Job Description: 

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Digital ASIC Backend Design Engineer to strengthen our mixed-signal ASIC design team in the Sensors Business Unit. You will play a crucial role in the design, development, and validation of digital modules for our industrial, medical and automotive sensing solutions with a strong focus on backend implementation and sign-off activities. You will work closely with our System Architect, our analog/mixed-signal/digital designers other backend- and Verification engineers.  

Job Requirements

  • Own and execute full digital backend flow from synthesized netlist to GDSII
  • Perform and optimize:
    • Floorplanning & Power Planning
    • Placement & Optimization
    • Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS)
    • Routing & Physical Verification
    • ECO flow
    • DfT  
  • Drive timing closure across all corners and modes
  • Perform and sign off:
    • Static Timing Analysis (STA)
    • DRC/LVS closure
    • Support power, IR-drop, electromigration (EM), and signal integrity analysis.
    • Logic equivalence checks (LEC)
  • Maintain and improve Place & Route scripts and flows (Cadence-based preferred)
  • Ensure robust, reusable backend infrastructure
  • Support handover, documentation, and knowledge transfer within the team
  • Work closely with Frontend/RTL designer, Analog/mixed-signal designers and Verification engineers

What your background should look like

  • BSc/MSc/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, or similar
  • Experience in digital ASIC backend design
  • Strong hands-on expertise in:
    • Place & Route tools (Cadence Innovus or equivalent)
    • Static Timing Analysis (Tempus, PrimeTime, etc.)
  • Proven track record of successful tape-outs
  • Solid understanding of:
    • Timing closure techniques
    • Low-power design concepts
    • Digital design flow from RTL to GDSII
  • Analog layout skills (DRC, LVS, matching …) are a  plus

 

Competencies

SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

  • Competitive Salary Package
  • Performance-Based Bonus Plans
  • Health and Wellness Incentives
  • Attractive pension fund for Switzerland
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
  • Employee Resource Group

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Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.

Job Locations:

Germany

Netherlands

Swindon United Kingdom
Posting City:  #
Job Country:  Switzerland
Travel Required:  Less than 10%
Requisition ID:  155110
Workplace Type:  Remote
External Careers Page:  Engineering & Technology